Album cover - Planning

Miss Lecointe

Font

Here is an example of the font me and my group were thinking of. These fonts are simple. We choose simple designs for the name of our band because we want the people who read the name of the band to be able to read it clearly.

This is an example of the font of the name of the album. We choose these fonts because they look sketchy and this will make the album cover look more personal. I think this will make the target audience feel more connected to the band because of the more personal feel to the album cover.

List of locations

As we planned to shot parts of our music video at a cinema, we thought it was a good idea to do the album cover at the same scene. This will show a connected between the music video and the album cover.

Another album cover idea is to shot the band at the park on the grass. This is because a belief of Indie is to have a ‘no care’ attitude. The grass would show freedom.

Camera Shots

An idea of planning for our camera shots was a long shot of the band like the example above. The long shot will be a good shot of the band because it will show them and their outfit; which will show more that they are from an Indie group.

Another idea of the camera shot to use is a mid-shot. This will be good for the band because it will help establish their faces more and also show how they dress; which will emphasise their Indie subculture.

Colour

An idea of the colour with the album cover is a black and white background but the band members are in colour. This is make the band members stand out more.

Another idea for the colour is to just make the whole cover in colour. This is to make the album cover look more realistic. Also the colour of the background can emphasise the band more; like the example above.

Lighting

This lighting we are planning to use is high key lighting. This is because our album cover will look more professional and our band will look more like ‘stars’ as the quality will be high. If we aren’t able to produce an album cover with high key lighting, then we will just use natural lighting as this is easier and will also show a professional look to the album cover.

Main Image

The main ideal we want our band to look like is Two Door Cinema Club. This is because they are the band of the song we are making a music video for. Although as their drummer isn’t part of the band, the drummer in our group will aspire to the drummer of the script as his part of that band.

I have chosen an image of a Jesus wrist band. I choose this because this is common in the Indie subculture especially many males. Audience’s wouldn’t aspire to this as it is cheap and available in local shops e.g. Topman. I have chosen an image of Dr Dre headphones. I chose this because this brand is expensive and is in many music videos. Audience’s will aspire this these headphones because they are expensive and the quality of them are good.

clothes

Ideology

Accessories

Age

HairThis male with short hair because this is how the males in my band have their hair. This hairstyle is conventional to the The age of our band will

be between the ages of 17-18 because most of our friends are this age. Our audience may then feel connected with the band because they are of a similar age group.

The image of the band will be in shirts with white vans because this is a simple colour. Vans isn’t a brand that the audience will aspire to but they will feel connected as there are common outfits.From my questionnaire I know chinos are similar to the Indie subculture;

asking what’s your favourite style in clothing, shirts were 35% with 40% with chinos and 40% canvas shoes. If chinos are worn, they will be brown-beige because this is a common colour in chinos.

Indie subculture because most of this subculture are white; there are no statistics to back this up but when I did my questionnaire, nearly all of them were of a white ethnic. This is the typical hairstyle for young white males in the Indie subculture and in general.